Harry was almost animated

Before Chris Columbus was chosen to direct the smash hit series of Harry Potter films, the production company Warner Bros. asked Steven Spielberg to do the job! Spielberg was interested, but had a very different vision for the movies than what has been produced today. Spielberg wanted to condense the plot of the books to make them more easy to create. Also he didn't want real people to play the characters. Instead he wanted to create a Pixar-style animated set of movies because he claimed the wizardy involved in the books would be very difficult and expensive to produce because many special effects would be necessary to make it all look realistic. Luckily for Potter fans worldwide, Spielberg's idea was cast out, and Columbus was chosen to bring the story of the Boy Who Lived to life. CLOSE CALL!


source: http://theweek.com/article/index/209435/the-harry-potter-phenomenon-7-surprising-facts